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Winter Solstice

Geminids Meteor Shower Shadow Measurement Daylight Duration December 2025 Earth's Tilt Wintersonnenwende Northern Hemisphere Daylight Hours Daylight Variation

Winter Solstice Has Passed With Daylight Growing, Sunrise Still Drifting Later

A quirk of Earth’s axial tilt plus an elliptical orbit delays the earliest dawn until early January in many places.